Social Media for Good

Exploring the use of digital communications tools for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief

One of the nice things about WordPress is that you can easily change the look and feel of your website by swapping one design (aka “theme”) for another. It’s really not much different from changing clothes – the content remains remains the same, but the appearance changes. Here is a list of things you should keep in mind when looking for a new WordPress theme.

Over the last two weeks, I have been away from my keyboard a lot. Here is a selection of articles and blog posts that I have come across and which I think you might find interesting. This time with: a new social media dashboard, the ethics of photography, learning from mistakes and WordPress themes for non-profit organizations.

I suppose getting your blog/website hacked s another rite of passage that is now behind me. What had made this so scary for me was that I myself couldn’t see the hack since the malware that had been snuck into the code only displayed text and links selectively to users and my IP, language preference or browsers didn’t meet these criteria.

I normally don’t write plugs for service providers, but I’d like to say a few words about Jinson, the guy behind Web2Feel, simply because their customer service is stellar.

I’ve recently come back from Haiti where I trained the Haiti Red Cross webmaster on WordPress, the CMS which we had agreed on. I was there for one week and Haiti Red Cross now finally has its own website and email.

What would you do if you could build a non-profit website from scratch without worrying about any integration issues? That’s exactly what I’m doing at the moment. In this post I’m sharing my ideas and I’d love to hear your’s.

Update: Problem solved. See comments if you have similar issues and want to know how I fixed them. If you are one of the 47 per cent of my visitors that use Firefox then you will see that the text runs over the “Facebook Share”-button on the right. I’m aware of this problem but don’t know how to solve it. I want the Facebook button to appear underneath the Twittley button (or the other way round), but of course I[...]